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by Bruce Fisher
In the best of times, Buffalo is a hard sell. We’re a little city in the cold part of fly-over country, an inconvenient eight-hour drive from Manhattan, Boston, Washington, or Chicago—the big cities where America’s political, cultural, financial, scientific, educational, and entrepreneurial leaders live.
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by Geoff Kelly
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by Zachary Burns
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by M. Faust
Mel Brooks once had a song called ‘Jews in Outer Space.’ That’s sort of the idea,” explains Joel Coen. Well, “explain” really isn’t the proper verb for a conversation with Joel and his brother Ethan, both of whom look like they rolled out of bed minutes before entering this Toronto hotel room.
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by Andrew Kulyk & Peter Farrell
Did you hear all those cheers in the crowd at the St. Pete Times Forum this past Saturday? When defenseman Tyler Myers connected on the lone shootout goal in the sixth shootout round to give the Buffalo Sabres a 3-2 victory over the Tampa Bay Lightning, one watching on television might have thought that the game was being played here at home, judging by the crowd reaction.
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CONGRATULATIONS to Hunger Anthem for collecting the most online votes this past week. Just like that, they’ve secured a spot on the bill for our next live battle of the bands at Nietzsche’s on Friday, November 27.
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by Anthony Chase |
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This November marks the fifth year that Howard Simon, left, and Jeremy White have manned the airwaves together as morning hosts of The Howard Simon Show on WGR 550 Sports Talk Radio. Providing topical sports discussion, (often) intentional comedy, and either solace or soundoff for suffering Buffalo sports fans everywhere, they have stomached some of the hardest years in Buffalo sports history.
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by M. Faust
If ever a movie was likely to be viewed differently by Americans audiences than in its home country, it’s this boisterous British drama about a soccer manager’s public burnout.
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Artvoice's weekly round-up of events to watch out for the week, including our editor's pick: Halloween 2009, with parties and events this Friday & Saturday.
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by Geoff Kelly |
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by Chuck Shepherd
The human brain’s 100 billion neurons may have such specific functions that a few electrically charge only upon recognition of a single celebrity, such as Oprah Winfrey or Bill Clinton. UCLA researchers, studying the healthy cells of pre-op epilepsy patients, inadvertently discovered this unusual property, which apparently varies with individuals but remains internally consistent, whether the celebrity is represented by picture, name or sound.
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Buffalo has a large and diverse gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender community. For further information about its numerous organizations and activities, visit Gaywatch at Artvoice.com, call the Western New York Pride Center (852-7743), or email WinterDanny@AOL.com.
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by Rob Brezsny
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Behind every face, there are a thousand faces,” says film director Bryan Singer, who worked on two of the X-Men movies. He deals with professional actors, who specialize in revealing the myriad faces beneath the surface.
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Out of the blue, my wife and I were invited to a party by a couple who just recently moved back to town. Since we hadn’t seen these friends in a long time, we were excited to go. We called them up to say we’d be there, and wound up having a good conversation as we caught up on things.
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